Twitter C/D

where people take a selfie with their dead relative and it's super weird.

Technically not selfies, but

https://i.imgur.com/zC0LG8q.gif

i used to watch 90210 to make sense of daniel drennan’s wrapuos, which were pretty influential

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/alt.tv.bh90210/FNixqSySvBY/rhSIo7C373UJ

an excerpt:
So then Brandon "V05" Walsh and this guy Mark are at the so-called
University television station, and this guy Mark is timing Brandon's
piece which is some nonsense about the fact that the school year has
started again; just like when the school newspaper last year ran the
weird headline, "School Starts", this year we have Brandon telling
everyone ALREADY AT school via the SCHOOL television station that SCHOOL HAS STARTED like how DUMB are the kids at CU anyway? And so Brandon is saying inane things like, "back by popular demand, it's the school year" which is a really weird thing to say, like I don't think you can say "the school year is back" and how weird that English doesn't have any word that means "the time after Labor Day" unlike French which has the word “la rentree" to denote the sense of
general-going-back-to-school-has-started-after-vacation time of year. So then Brandon is talking about "higher" education while we get shots of beer kegs and then Brandon finishes up his car sales pitch and this guy Mark who has been timing him is all, "perfect" and Brandon is worried about finding someone "who can read it on the air" and Mark is all listing the qualities that define every scary brainless talking head on
television news, and Brandon is all liking newspapers because "no one has to read them to you" and this guy Mark is all, "that's because no one is reading them anymore" which is such an annoying thing to say, like they should take this guy Mark's wooden head and recycle it for newsprint. So then this guy Mark is all explaining how they are going to have "75,000 people watching" and isn't it great to know that if you are a communications major at CU that you are taught that more important than editorial integrity or anything else is RATINGS like how obviously is
this a Fox television show which blurs the line between editorial content and advertising all the time in order to pump up ratings, and which editorializes on the news like tonight on the so-called Fox News with that chowderhead Rosanna Scotto whose lead story was about some poor schmuck's public access cable show which "portrayed Satanism" and “attacked Christians" but before we get to that story, "he was considered by some to be a devil, but was also a saint of the rap world--Tupac Shakur is dead tonight" LIKE WHAT KIND OF NONSENSE IS THAT and then they go right into a call to "clean up cable" of so-called Satanic public access shows, like this one show represents one-hundredth of one percent of what is spewed out by the 100% non-liberal corporate-owned television and we need to "clean it up" meanwhile _Married With Children_ is now in distribution worldwide and the Fox News channel is coming because Rupert Murdoch paid a per-subscriber fee to all the cable companies in the country knocking other channels like Lifetime off the air. So then just to prove my point this guy Mark is all, "if you want to reach the boobs you gotta be on the tube" and Brandon is all, "nice to know you aren't going to talk down to our audience" like that has to be the most telling meta-exchange of this show's history and this guy Mark is all, "that's what anchors are for" and then Brandon is all picking up a pile of audition tapes to look through and this guy Mark is all, "I don't think we should hire someone just for looks" and Brandon is all, "well not bad ones, anyway".

i miss the old internet and also the pre fox news world

shut it down

I just returned to this realization today.
Music is enjoyable don't get me wrong.
But your time is much better spent listening to a podcast.

— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) March 8, 2019

oooh baby
i feel like
the podcast sounds better with you

from a certain pov that is self-evident - if audio is what you consume when video is impossible or awkward, in the "gaps", podcasts can feel self-improving, like you're making use of what would otherwise be "wasted" time. from that pov music is just indulgence. obviously i don't agree with this but anecdotally it's a pretty widespread, if not very examined, pov

yeah i personally hate it

there aren't even enough good podcasts to compete with music let alone the idea that you've replaced one with the other aaaaaaaargh

I hate podcasts. Just give me a fucking transcript ffs

i don't really get the 'hellsite' thing. it's addictive and encourages some bad mental habits (inattention, snap judgment, groupthink) but like, that's because it's funny and enjoyable

― flopson

my objection is that the world is now run on the twitter model. it's all about who has the most powerful memes, and those tend to boil down to either outrage or shitty jokes. i don't mind the shitty jokes, but i do mind the pattern of people getting upset about something outrageous for two minutes and publicly stewing about it until the next outrage comes along, and everybody forgets what they were outraged about yesterday. i hate to be that old fuddy duddy, but there is value to considering things thoughtfully and with an eye to their long term implications. doing that basically requires one to not tweet about those things.

i don't really get the 'hellsite' thing. it's addictive and encourages some bad mental habits (inattention, snap judgment, groupthink) but like, that's because it's funny and enjoyable

― flopson

i can definitely imagine it being a hellsite for the people "lucky" enough to be successful at twitter--constantly mobbed and harrassed by crazies

ohhhh lord 2pac big please talk to this sucker cause they killing ratios

Twitter is making drastic changes in the next update:

- Retweet and Like numbers are hidden to be more 'friendly'

- Massive changes to image + video

- More 'proactive' enforcement and policy changeshttps://t.co/pES7l2zJon pic.twitter.com/RnxpZWdkxD

— Ryan Brown 🎮 (@Toadsanime) March 13, 2019

hahaha they have no fucking clue

if i never have to see someone describe a tweet as "ratioed" again it was worth it

LOL @ removing favs and RTs

Will the "changes to video" involve the mass-banning of people who just post reaction gifs?

can they make people's phones shock them when they do digital blackface

this is gonna ruin @EndlessJeopardy

xxp https://media.giphy.com/media/l0ErQJblvX9EWNQCA/giphy.gif

I support removing the likes/RTs from public view, can’t really think of a purpose it serves except to flatter the narcissistic and discourage conversation

wonder how that will jibe with them specifically pushing tweets with more engagement?

suppose just status quo but without the RTs and faves visible

I dont like to like something unless everyone else has liked it first.

my understanding is theyre testing not showing fav/rt nums in the timeline but then if u click through to the individual tweet youll see them, philosophically i support the concept but lmao cmon twitter is completely built on those numbers, id be surprised if they went through w it

discourage conversation

feature/bug

lol yeah

its pretty funny how when social media took over like every news site was all "the conversation has moved to facebook" and turned their comments the fuck off

I still use tweetbot 90% of the time and it doesn't show the likes/retweets/replies numbers unless you swipe on the tweet! guess I hadn't considered the pile-ones being fueled by how much of a pile-on is already happening but it totally makes sense

imo they should not show the numbers in the feed but should instead add a little icon that says "RATIO'D" in mortal kombat typeface

dafuq does "ratioed" mean?

the number of replies dwarfs the number of likes and retweets, indicating the tweet has said something exceptionally dumb or wrong and everyone is falling over backward to point that out

I think the examples cited became less-ratioed after the article, but M-W is on it: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/words-were-watching-ratio-ratioed-ratioing

the post that started it all https://deadspin.com/the-ratio-is-the-triple-crown-of-bad-tweets-1798441271

can't wait to see all this graphically represented at the twitter museum in 30 years time

Just spent the last hour with my arms wrapped around my giant 6’ 4” 17-year-old son.
No phones, no words... just silence, breathing, bonding.
Best hour I’ve had in ages.#Grateful

— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) March 16, 2019

#Grateful

I never will again!

I guess there are a couple articles from a few years back, but some weird meme cult has been adding friends/infiltrating in the electronic music scene and this thread has been wild all afternoon:

Somebody in a cult just added me on Facebook and immediately asked for some money. What the hell is going on.

— 🥀⛓ 𝖍𝖊 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖈𝖎𝖆 ⛓🥀 (@HE_VALENCIA) March 17, 2019

each day a new horror lol

oh yeah and the guy trying to scam money off people is the son of the ayn rand foundation head dude?!?

so many levels

lol facebook is the spam mail of our generation

I'm writing "a thing" about how Twitter used to be very, very different, and would welcome your memories. Mine are shot to shit.

— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) March 18, 2019

The slide into the abyss started when the non-famous started to join in. Slowly this website became filled with anonymous accounts screeching away like baboons, most of them didn't even have columns to link to or careers to promote. They were just saying things for the hell of it

— Simon Hedges (@Orwell_Fan) March 19, 2019

twitter's innocent age ended with the horse_ebooks reveal

the slide into the abyss started when famous people started using twitter tbh

What was the horse_ebooks reveal?

It was revealed that the account had been sold to buzzfeed & was being used as an art project... of some sort

the slide into the abyss started when famous people started using twitter tbh

iirc it was specifically when non-famous people realised famous people were using it and created accounts just to endlessly tweet their idols without ever getting a single reply.

in that tiny moment between famous people being there and non-famous people piling in, the famous people had the opportunity to just be people, and it was actually really nice.

yeah

It was revealed that the account had been sold to buzzfeed & was being used as an art project... of some sort

― gyac, Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:53 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

funny thing was a lot of ppl speculated that the account had changed hands and gone from bot to scripted and even identified the exact post where it happened way before the reveal, which is just the kind of insanity that makes the site good lol

*it was sold to a guy who worked at buzzfeed fwiw iirc

simon hedges is the only good twitter account